As I’ve said before, a schizophrenic out on a walk with his Tascam DR-05 is infinitely more interesting than a neurotic moping on his couch with an Epi Texan. You gotta get outta yer head and let the world create itself around you. Yo-yo around town, let Cairo guide you. The city pens something new daily, but yer too up and out to pay any attention. That’s the secret: yer the yo-yo and Cairo is flippin’ you around her fingers. Walk the dog around the world and up the elevator.

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A Playlist By October Firm: in which Drake adds to his already-expansive, fractured taxonomy of distribution methods (see: “retail mixtape”), and, by cooly recapturing the unfussy, dashed-off appeal of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and What a Time to Be Alive, he doubles down on the continuity and reflexiveness of his un-ending hot streak, ther

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It’s tempting to look at all cultural production (art, films, books, and music) as if it’s expressing a prevailing mood of horror at the state of the world. It would be a bit too reductive to say that World Eater was yet another example of this line of thinking, even if it’s an exhausting thing to listen to. It’s not like we couldn’t have foreseen our current wave of crises; the warning signs about globalization and climate change, for example, have been common knowledge for a long time.

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Sequencing (the process in which the order and flow of tracks on an album are chosen) is a process that can have immense effects on a listener, effects that are at the same time often subtle and intangible. The choices made in album sequence are easy to take for granted as a listener. This is why I was so surprised that, after only a few listens, I appreciated Pile’s latest album, A Hairshirt of Purpose, so much more when I began my listening with its third track, “Rope’s Length.”

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“Everybody, it’s gonna happen. You know it’s gonna happen. It happens every day. Billions and billions of people have already died. You too will die. Sing along with us, won’t you?”
– Daniel Johnston, “Funeral Home”

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